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Think Twice before Dropping ACID and Throw Your CAP Away
Andrew Gregović discusses ACID and CAP, the questions to ask when starting a new project and choosing its database in order to make an informed decision.
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Building Blocks of a Distributed System
Oren Eini discusses the building blocks of a reliable, transactional distributed database, covering ACID compliance, consistency, failure handling, monitoring, management, and more.
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High Throughput Stream Processing with ACID Guarantees
Terence Yim from Continuuity showcases a transactional stream processing system that supports full ACID properties without compromising scalability and high throughput.
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Transactions: Over Used or Just Misunderstood?
Mark Little provides advice on when it is not recommended to use transactions and how to use transactions with Web Services, NoSQL, REST and mobile infrastructures.
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Fear No More: Embrace Eventual Consistency
Sean Cribbs compares ACID with BASE, explaining the virtues and tradeoffs of eventually consistent systems and what developers should know in order to feel comfortable working with EC systems.
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SQLFire: Scalable SQL instead of NoSQL
Jags Ramnaraya presents SQLFire and how SQL can be used for modern data stores backing online highly scalable applications by using a different consistency model and sharing nothing persistence.
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Embracing Concurrency At Scale
Justin Sheehy explains the principles behind concurrent distributed systems: no global state, no ACID but rather BASE, no RPC but protocols over APIs, prepare for failure, degradation, measurement.
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Hooking Stuff Together - Programming the Cloud
Gregor Hohpe of Google discusses software as connecting services and components, describes the constraints of connected systems design, and presents common design patterns to solve those constraints.